St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-13
Present Status Of the Prov
ince's Legal and Finan-
cial Complications.
The Transactions Engineered
By Ives--The Omaha Land
Imbroglio.
Financial Aid Secured For
Building the Winona and
Southwestern.
Special to the Globe


ity of the railway situation is the all
absorbing topic in this city, and the peo-
pie are preparing to organize for forci-
BILE resistance, which now seems newt
able. kilograms pour in from all parts
of the province, promising support to
the provincial side of the question and
advising the government to stick to
their position, and all moral and phys
ical support necessary will be forthcom-
ing. The prominent Conservatives now
admit that Sir John Mcdonald has
written, threatening to send troops into
the country and put down resistance
with high hand. They further assert,
despite his denial, that he did see and
advise the sending of threatening tel
egram to Winnipeg, that the people
here are ready to fight and will defend
their rights with their blood, believing
that the justice of the cause will, if
necessary, invoke protection from the
United States. The newspapers unani-
mously condemn the action of the Do
minion government and call upon the
people to stand firm and defy the gov
ernment and build the road despite
force. The Free Press, the leading
Northwestern paper, says:
II money is procurable the railway will be
built. Manitoba has sacred, undoubted in
contestable right to build, and build it she
will. Let our resolution be called what it
may. 1t is useless to shrek rebellion 1t
may be treason, rebellion or anything else
but as long as 1t is right to build the road it
will be done. William Pitt is quoted as say
ing during the American rebellion: when
the liberty OF the subjected is invaded and all
redress denied him resistance is justified ~
All the tyranny and sneaking in the world
cannot deprive us Of the road and we are
justified in asserting our rights in the face Of
the cohorts of injustice.
In the course of
A LONG DENUNCIAToRY ARTICLE
the dominion organ here, the Call, says !;
1t is not thought likely the dominion gov
ernment will allow it to come to question of
force, but the people of the province are pre-
pared even for that emergency.
AS to the question of procuring money
2 that paper suggests that the people
should raise it themselves by taking up
government bonds to be issued at 500
each. The financial problem .weuld
then be: Required 100000 to be raised
on S100 bonds from among 100000 peo-
pie. Thus if 10 per cent. of the popula-
ton subscribe each for 500 share, the
required sum would be raised. Among
the advantages which such a scheme
would offer would be the concentration
of all the interests in the new road in
the province, and ill consequence the
enterprise would be a source of enrich
ment to instead of a drain upon the
pockets of the people. This scheme at
least is quite as feasible as any that has
been proposed. Supposing the worst
should come, it does not necessarily fol-
low that 10000 individuals would be
called upon to invest 500 each. Several
prominent business men would
without doubt, in fact some
have already expressed them
selves as willing to invest few
thousand dollars. This scheme meets
with general approval, ,and would doubt
crown, discussing the action of the Do
miniOn government in asking for an in
junction, said such action would raise
one of the finest points that would prob
ably occur in years. Had the Red river
valley railway act not been disallowed,
and were it in full force up to the pres
ent day, the Dominion government
would not be in a bit stronger position
than under the present circumstances.
Despite any legislation that might be
passed and allowed, the Dominion gov
ernment could apply for an injunction
and prevent the road crossing any of its
lands. And if such Injunction were
granted deadly blow would be struck,
not only at our liberties, but at the lib
critics of any province where the Domin-
ion government owns lands. If the in
junction applied for here were granted,
the local government could be prevented
from building a railway, highway or
even digging ditch through any por-
ton of the province where the Dominion
lands existed. Thus the province might
be
DEPRIVED OF THE DEAREST RIGHTS
it possessed. Our very existence de-
pended upon the manner in which we
fought the battle, and it was high time
for the people of the province to bestir
themselves. The argument on the
Browning injunction continued all day,
Howell, @. c., taking up the cudgels for
the province and tearing down the legal
up. He dwelt upon ''Patriot'' Browning
coming all the way from Quebec to
purchase lots and try and stop the build
ing of the road. The thing was simply
absurd and the court could never grant
relief from damages he did not sustain.
He also argued upon the rights con-
ferred by the British North American
act. This right existed even before the
British North American act passed. He
characterized Browning as the modern
Shylock asking the government to
plunge blade into the quivering bowels
of Manitoba. He contended that the
ministers of the crown could not be
held liable for the acts of subordinate
ministers. They were only acting as
agents of the queen and could not be
held liable either. The instructions
given by the ministers were given before
the act was disallowed and were legal.
He next contended that the prosecution
of the railway under the public works
act was perfectly legal. The case is
progressing.
HENRY S. IVES.